From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Renzmann Subject: Re: Broadcom 43xx first results Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:14:03 +0100 Message-ID: <1133806444.4498.35.camel@gimli> References: <20051205190038.04b7b7c1@griffin.suse.cz> Reply-To: netdev@nospam.otaku42.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mbuesch@freenet.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, NetDev Return-path: To: Jiri Benc In-Reply-To: <20051205190038.04b7b7c1@griffin.suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi. On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:00 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: > Why yet another attempt to write 802.11 stack? Sure, the one currently > in the kernel is unusable and everybody knows about it. But why not to > improve code opensourced by Devicescape some time ago instead of > inventing the wheel again and again? Or, in case there is some unknown objection to the mentioned code: use the 802.11 stack that comes along with MadWifi, which provides things like virtual interfaces (for multiple SSID support on one physical card) and WPA support. Although I'm a bit biased towards MadWifi, I'd second your suggestion to make use of the Devicescape code. The benefit of having a fully-blown 802.11 stack in the kernel that drivers can make use of has been discussed before, so I won't go into that yet again. Bye, Mike